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Using historical and contemporary visual examples, assess whether the male gaze still exists. The male gaze is a concept that refers to how visual culture is designed to please a male viewer by sexually objectifying women. It was first coined by Laura Mulvey, a British feminist film critic, in her essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975). She argues that Hollywood films use women as “erotic objects” in order to provide pleasurable experience for heterosexual male audiences. According

As an author Laura Hillenbrand has made an impact of people's lives, whether it is her power of words that affects the way people feel or the pure power of the true stories she writes about. Hillenbrand has a unique way of writing her books. She suffers from an incurable disease called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which makes people increasingly tired and unable to do most usually easy things. Though being confined to her house hasn't stopped her. She still has outstanding capabilities. For instance

Unsatisfied with simply being in medical school, Morgan decided to look around Nashville to help his community while practicing and studying medicine. Morgan searched for places that would allow him to do both and found that Siloam Medical Center was the perfect place to bridge both of his passions - Christ and medicine. In fact, the mission statement of Siloam shows how perfectly both of these two seemingly unrelated ideas can come together. The mission statement reads, “Sharing the love of Christ

In Linda Williams’ article, “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess,” Williams explains how some genres, particularly horror, pornography, and melodrama, fall into the “body genre” category. Horror and pornography serve to bring out certain excess to the audience, such as terror or sexual feeling. Melodrama, however, is generally implemented in various genres that it should not be considered a genre, but an element that it used to provide sensational plot, elaborate settings, and strong emotions

The term "male gaze" coined by Laura Mulvey in her essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," draws attention to the role of females in films where women are objectified for the male spectator. “Objectification Theory” by Barbara Fredrickson and Tomi-Ann Roberts agree that sexual gazing is what enables sexual objectification. Jean George “ The Babysitter at Rest,” explores the consequences one might encounter as a result of the male gaze. Through her relentless encounter with her lover and boss

The “Male Gaze”. In 1975, feminist film critic Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay entitled "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" defined a new phrase the “Male Gaze”. Mulvey explained the phrase as a filter that is placed onto various mediums such as film that depict the world and women from a masculine point of view and in terms of men's ‘male dominance over women’. This gaze according to Mulvey, “sexualizes and objectifies the woman”. The male gaze also affects how women see themselves and how

At first glance, “Sexual Paranoia” by Laura Kipnis is appalling. Is she really saying she thinks it’s okay for students to hook up with their professors? What an awful woman. However, Kipnis develops a strongly written essay that will certainly get most people to at least understand her opinion. That’s not to say I agree with everything Kipnis says. Although her argument does contain some good points, it’s flawed in a lot of ways. Kipnis begins her argument by explaining how she feels sorry for

Jack Kerouac's On the Road and Allen Ginsberg's Howl Works Cited It was a 1951 TIME cover story, which dubbed the Beats a ‘Silent Generation, ’ that led to Allen Ginsberg’s retort in his poem ‘America,’ in which he vocalises a frustration at this loss of self- importance. The fifties Beat Generation, notably through Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and Allen Ginsberg’s Howl as will here be discussed, fought to revitalise individuality and revolutionise their censored society which seemed to

Correspondingly, “[Allen] Ginsberg's and [William] Burroughs's homosexuality is consumed as decontextualized, as if there were no gay culture in which these men participated (or didn't), and as if this status as lonely "Other" served merely to enhance their glamour for a straight

crimes and frauds before they occur (Riggs, 2007). Stanford Financial Group Company: A Brief History The Stanford Financial Group Company was a privately owned international group that specialized in financial services under the control of Allen Stanford. Allen Stanford controlled the financial company until United States authorities seized in at the end of 2009 due to what came to be known as "Ponzi scheme or scandal." Among its many groups was the Stanford International Bank, with more than 50 offices